What are all the different weapons used in The Walking Dead?

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Tara consistently carried an M&P until their arrival at Terminus (when it would have been taken from her).
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Not only that, but she described herself as being a "Smith and Wesson girl" at one point, so it's not only the same gun but it's actually consistent with her prior statement.
 
Rick the sheriff guy uses a sick Colt Python .357 magnum revolver w/ a 6" barrel in either stainless or sating nickel. VERY cool gun.
 
Cooldill said:
Rick the sheriff guy uses a sick Colt Python .357 magnum revolver w/ a 6" barrel in either stainless or sating nickel. VERY cool gun.
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Everyone refers to him as Sheriff. He was actually a Deputy. Though, I suppose we can assume he has been elevated to Sheriff by attrition.

In season 1, Episode 1, I think he was the only one at the barricade with a revolver, and he advised one of the other deputies about a manual safety. From Rick's choice of handgun for duty carry (a near-collector's item and NOT inexpensive), his advising his fellow officer, Shane's comment about "your Python" in a later episode and his marksmanship, I infer certain things about Deputy Rick Grimes:

1) a firearms enthusiast among the force
2) maybe the firearms instructor or armorer
3) well respected by his fellow officers for his gun handling and perhaps people skills as well.

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You can now add the red handled machete to the list. This weeks episode was intense.
 
Whose the guy with the crossbow? What's his deal?

I tend the think of some of the characters by their weapon of choice.... Samurai chick, archer dude..... Or, Sargent Stadanko.
 
Crossbow guy is Darrill. I don't understand his weapon choice. A crossbow seems like one of the worst weapons. I think a regular bow would be better because of the higher rate of fire.
 
Well, from the shows standpoint the crossbow is probably better. The arrow is always ready to fly without holding it back, it doesnt take much force to go through the zombies decaying body/skulls, and all bows are quiet and wont attract other zombies with the noise.
 
fallout mike said:
Well, from the shows standpoint the crossbow is probably better. The arrow is always ready to fly without holding it back, it doesnt take much force to go through the zombies decaying body/skulls, and all bows are quiet and wont attract other zombies with the noise.
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Plus they routinely show Darryl restoring his ammo supply by pulling bolts out of the zombies' skulls. A somewhat recoverable ammo supply is nothing to sneeze at in the zombie apocalypse!

I'm quite gratified to see so many TWD fans here on THR. It's the favorite show currently on the air for both my wife and me. She couldn't care less about the guns, but she loves the character interactions and the suspense/ horror elements.

I love it for the same reasons, PLUS I dig the guns and various melee weapons (from the katana, to dual-use objects like bats and fireplace pokers, to the jerry-rigged stuff they cooked up at Terminus). :)

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The crossbow used by Darrel is personally owned by Norman Reedus, the actor who plays him. The original writing was supposed to be predominant firearm use for the character but the actor wanted to use his crossbow instead. They never covered that Darrel was a felon, and his past is a mystery even in the comics. The show even played with the fact that he was an undercover police officer.
 
fallout mike said:
Well, from the shows standpoint the crossbow is probably better. The arrow is always ready to fly without holding it back, it doesnt take much force to go through the zombies decaying body/skulls, and all bows are quiet and wont attract other zombies with the noise.
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I know from experience crossbows are not "quiet". It's not as loud as a firearm but they have a decent amount of noise.
 
And realistically, daryl's new crossbow, launching bolts at 380 fps, would zip clean through a walker head and would not be recovered. Also, did anybody else notice his crossbow has no sights? He just has a rail, no red dot no iron sights. I can't imagine that would be very accurate.
 
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And realistically, daryl's new crossbow, launching bolts at 380 fps, would zip clean through a walker head and would not be recovered. Also, did anybody else notice his crossbow has no sights? He just has a rail, no red dot no iron sights. I can't imagine that would be very accurate.
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He had a red dot sight on it during earlier seasons. The writers probably thought the batteries would be dead by now with no means to replenish them, so ditched the red dot last season.



This was from Season 1
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Season 4
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The other problem with the crossbow is I have seen the bolts break on occasion and as someone else pointed out, they would fly strait through with field points. He could not keep pulling them out and reusing them over and over. Also, crossbows have a loud KWATHUMP when you shoot them.
 
When we were kids growing up 14-18 years old, i had one of the pump master pellet rifles. We nearly wore it out. At some point the sights broke off. But we had gotten so used to it that Arkansas Paul and myself was still smoking everything we aimed at. We went fishing in our favorite spot that was snake infested all the time. I mean they would fall into your boat out of trees. We started carrying that pellet rifle. On one trip one summer we killed right at 30 water moccasins with no sights. After 5 years i doubt Daryl has problems hitting a slow moving or stationary head at 5-25 feet.
 
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When we were kids growing up 14-18 years old, i had one of the pump master pellet rifles. We nearly wore it out. At some point the sights broke off. But we had gotten so used to it that Arkansas Paul and myself was still smoking everything we aimed at. We went fishing in our favorite spot that was snake infested all the time. I mean they would fall into your boat out of trees. We started carrying that pellet rifle. On one trip one summer we killed right at 30 water moccasins with no sights. After 5 years i doubt Daryl has problems hitting a slow moving or stationary head at 5-25 feet.
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I'm guessing that the writers and/or prop men might not have thought it through to that level (they also have people occasionally firing rifles that are missing rear sights). But this was the rationale that I personally came up with for why Daryl could shoot a sightless crossbow so effectively (just the fact that he has used it so often, it's like second nature to him, and he can virtually do it point-shooting). Again, not that I think the show's production staff thought it through to that extent -- but it was the "explanation" that satisfied my personal need for internal logic.

But -- by and large -- it's prolly not a good idea to over-think a series about herds of reanimated dead people that hunger for human flesh... We, as firearm folk (and weapon folk in general), just have that urge to tweak the details just right... :)

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Them shooting rifles with the gun somewhat in their shoulder with them looking over the gun by 8" and making head shoots at 75 yards is a different story. thats annoying
 
If you look at the first picture of Daryl with the crossbow, it is loaded wrong.

They are also 2 different crossbows in those pics.

I kinda liked the aluminum baseball bat suppressor that Carl was using last season.
 
And as far as no sights go, instinctively shooting is commonly used in archery (don't recall seeing sights on any medieval crossbows).
 
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